People and Their Planet: Searching for Balance

ISBN-13: 9780333688113 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 313 str.

Barbara Sundberg Baudot;William R. Moomaw

Opis

This book brings together research on the relations between people and the planet's living and non-living resources. Its three main foci include the methodological approaches to the study of relationships between people and land use, patterns of consumption, population trends and the availability of food and water resources; an examination of evidence of disequilibria in increasing conflicts, migrations, and over-crowding; and a search for balance between people and the other elements of the biosphere through understanding and overcoming destructive forces.

Spis treści

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword; N.Sadik Overview: The Population-Environment Equation: Implications for Future Security; B.S.Baudot Introduction Dimensions of the Population-Environment Equation; B.S.Baudot PART I: FACTORS IN THE EQUATION Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: Recent Approaches and Methods; C.M.Marquette and R.E.Bilsborrow Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development: Global Issues; J.N.Jordan Population, Affluence, or Technology? An Empirical Look at National Carbon; W.R.Moomaw and D.M.Tullis Colonist Land-Allocation Decisions, Land Use, and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian; A.Frontier and F.J.Pich�opulation-Environment Dynamics in Lahat: A Case Study of Deforestation in a Regency of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia; L.Heydir Water, Food, and Population; S.L.Postel Population as a Scale Factor: Impacts on Environment and Development; R.Engelman PART II: THE EQUATION OUT-OF-BALANCE Population Dynamics Revisited: Lessons for Foreign Aid and US Immigration Policy; V.D.Abernethy Population and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: India's Megacities; S.F.Krishna-Hensel Mexico City: Current Demographic and Environmental Trends; H.Izazola and C.M.Marquette The Environmental Impacts of Refugee Settlement: A Case Study of an Agricultural Camp in Zambia; V.Lassailly-Jacob The Struggle Over Transboundary Fresh Water Resources: Social and Economic Conflict in the Appropriation and Use of Water Along the US-Mexico Border; R.A.S�hez PART III: SEARCHING FOR EQUILIBRIUM Factors Leading to Population Growth in Bangladesh and their Impacts on the Environment; N.Firdaus Two Threats to Global Security; A.de Sherbinin Population, Land Use, and the Environment in a West African Savanna Ecosystem: An Approach to Sustainable Land Use on Community Lands in Northern Ghana; G.T.Agyepong, E.A.Gyasi and J.S.Nabila, with S.K.Kufogbe 'Stay Together/Learn the Flowers/Go Light': Education in a Time of Environmental Crisis; J.Elder Ecological Security: Micro-Threats to Human Wellbeing; D.Pirages Index

O autorze

VIRGINIA DEANE ABERNETHY Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN G.T. AGYEPONG Director, Remote Sensing Applications Unit, Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, RICHARD E. BILSBORROW The Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC JOHN ELDER Professor, Program in Environmental Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT ROBERT ENGELMAN Director, Population and Environment Program, Population Acton International, Washington, D.C. NASIM FIRDAUS Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka, Bangladesh LAUREL HEYDIR The School of Law and Population Research Center, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia HAYDEA IZAZOLA Consultant-Demographer, Colina del Sur, Mexico D.F. JEFFREY N. JORDAN Senior Scientist, The Futures Group International, Washington, D.C. SAI FELICIA KRISHNA-HENSEL Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Auburn University, Montgomery, AL VÉRONIQUE LASSAILLY-JACOB Geographer, Centre for African Studies, French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris CATHERINE M. MARQUETTE Consultant, Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway FRANCISCO PICHON Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway DENNIS PIAGES Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD SANDRA L. POSTEL Global Water Policy Project, Amherst, MA ROBERTO SANCHEZ Program Manger for Transboundary Issues, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada ALEX DE SHERBININ Population-Environment Fellow at IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland MARK TULLIS Folio, Inc., Provo, UT.